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by nmlnn 6y ago
Also, some people call "aubergines" "eggplants", they can't both be right!
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by nmlnn 6y ago
That's just something people repeat over and over again until it seems true. In reality it just provides cover for malicious actors/actions.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
It seems like it's going that way though. I used a MBP as a phd student and postdoc for scientific computing and at the time ~2010-2015 it was fantastic for that, all my peers thought so as well. At conferences/seminars, there wou
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by nmlnn 6y ago
I recommend learning more about the bitcoin payments space before trying to criticise it. A bitcoin transaction does not cost $10 ( https://mempool.space/graphs#1w ). If you are going to add in your (completely made up?) esti
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Someone should teach Google management about the Lindy Effect, and how most people use it as a barometer for whether or not to take something seriously.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Fee rates over the past week: https://mempool.space/graphs#1w
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by nmlnn 6y ago
I'm complaining now.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Who's to say they won't add that in future as a new "security feature" - especially now that they are "fixing" this issue by encrypting the calls home. Apple is a master of shifting consumer norms, behaviours a
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by nmlnn 6y ago
It strains credulity to assume no malicious (i.e. data harvesting) intent. They are requiring millions of devices to phone home every time they open any application, rather than just pushing an update to a locally stored certificate b
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by nmlnn 6y ago
In fact China and Australia already had a bilateral FTA between them that came into force in 2015. Pieces of paper are meaningless to the CCP.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Yeah, if looked at in the larger context of them booting iOS apps from the app store that don't pay the 30% Apple tax for any in app payment - it's clear where they're going. It's just a boil the frog slowly strategy of
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by nmlnn 6y ago
TIL, electronic voting machines are CLOSED SOURCE (hardware and software) - that should be completely unacceptable in an open democracy. It makes me wonder how a statement like this can be proved. > There is no evidence that any voting s
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Let me tell you a story about this frog and this scorpion..
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Not uncoincidentally this was the year 1984 was published, and Newspeak is the official language of Oceania, so..
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by nmlnn 6y ago
> What percent of the working population are video editors? Some tiny fraction, how did that become the default type of professional in the context of talking about computers? They get outsized influence because they're the ones tha
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by nmlnn 6y ago
So far my smartphone history has been: HTC Desire (approx. Nexus1) -> Galaxy Nexus -> Nexus 4 -> Nexus 5 -> Nexus 5X -> Pixel 1 -> Pixel 2 -> Pixel 3 -> ? My favourites where the N4 and P2. The P2 fixed the shitty ca
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by nmlnn 6y ago
> Bitcoin simply isn’t that Agree to disagree. I would say you're the one twisting the definition of "hard currency" (Wikipedia is not the source of all truth). "Hard money" originally reffered to gold. When pape
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by nmlnn 6y ago
The "hard" part of hard currency refers to its monetary properties - i.e. how easy it is to inflate the supply. On this metric Bitcoin is harder than anything else out there. So then we are arguing about whether it's a "
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Sigh.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Speculation about the (unknowable) future is how we allocate all resources in the present. A lot of people on HN seem to lump the "buy because price is rising" speculators in with the "buy because Bitcoin will become the foun
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by nmlnn 6y ago
They went from being worth $350K to $1B. What currency could you possibly convert them to that is harder than that?
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by nmlnn 6y ago
0.1st world problems
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by nmlnn 6y ago
In 1970 when these AML thresholds were set a dollar was tied to gold at $35/oz. So based on the gold price today it's actually: $10,000 (1970) = $10,000 x 1880/35 = ~$537,000 (2020)
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Exact same boat here. My motivation died around 30 (34 now) once I realized I wasn't going to make any kind of impact on humanity. So now it's harder and harder to answer the question of "what's the point?". Whereas
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by nmlnn 6y ago
This line bugged me also - the definition of wanting your cake and eating it too. How would such products ever get to the volumes required for prices to come down if even people who "care" aren't prepared to buy them.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Still can't understand the logic, the website is open! If the information can get to my eyes and ears I can put a recording device in-between. At the end of the day the video is being played on my computer. The only logical endgame, if
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by nmlnn 6y ago
YouTube's design choice is to serve all their content via an open api, which is why youtube-dl works. It's not circumventing anything.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
And people could use human brains to store that information. We need read/write access to your mind just to be safe!
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by nmlnn 6y ago
My point is that money is fungible. It's weird to me to see this complete disconnect between science funding and the trillions being created and pumped into the financial system. She/we are treating science funding as zero sum, ye
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by nmlnn 6y ago
It would cost at least 3 times as much to get the same amount of talent working on something like that. Projects like the LHC are able to massively leverage the money spent just because smart people are happy to work on exciting/deep p

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